Drowning Sorrows
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| Sentinel Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Drowning Sorrows |
| Author(s): | DCStreets |
| Date(s): | |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | The Sentinel |
| External Links: | online here |
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Drowning Sorrows is a Sentinel story by DCStreets.
Reactions and Reviews
I'm not normally a big fan of hurt/comfort stories as authors have a tendecy to emphasize the hurt and not deal with the comfort aspect of the equation. However, when it's done right, it make a story rock.Drowning Sorrows is a post TSbyBS story with Blair as a cop, but that doesn't have an impact on the story. Jim and Blair are chasing a gang and get in over their heads.
The story unfolds at a slow pace. Like Jim waking from unconsciousness, the reader slowly becomes aware of their predicament and just how bad it is.
The characterizations are dead-on. The pacing is great. The dialogue is perfect. The writing crisp.
Don't let the fact that the story is gen fool you.[1]
This intense story starts with Jim slowly awakening to a situation that’s not particularly unusual: He and Blair have been captured by bad guys and locked in dark room. But their circumstances are much more dire than at first glance, and chances for survival aren’t good. Blair asks Jim to do the impossible – abandon Blair and save himself on the slim chance that he can find a way to rescue them both. < [2]
This one not only is chock full of lay-down-your-life angst, but it puts it together well. The opening has Jim cataloguing his surroundings when waking from unconsciousness, and some of it is almost poetic...There's also some good Jim-Blair banter ... This one is post-TSbyBS with Blair-as-a-cop but one hardly notices. There was one moment that was a bit too fanony for my taste (a reference to Blair's "guide-voice") but it was only one bit. Overall it was just... good! I particularly liked the bit about Jim's "gallery of perfect memories". In someone else's hands the emotions would have been over the top, but not here. You really believe they'd lay down their lives to save the other one. Good.[3]